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    Perhaps too we could get someone to do an "intro to scripting
    languages/Perl" talk at CDBUG. Since a number of BSDs come with Perl
    in the default install.<br>
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    NYC*BUG did a regexp crash course meeting last year and it was
    awesome.<br>
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    ~Brian<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/14 20:13, Steve Moon wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I used to share the write-only language viewpoint,
        having attempted to read my own code a few months later. I have
        learned a lot about more recent developments in Perl 5 that help
        in that regard. Obviously Ruby and Python have grabbed most of
        the space that Perl once occupied, and the promise of Perl 6
        badly stunted further growth.
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          <div>I find the meetings interesting. If you're interested the
            website is: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://albany.pm.org">http://albany.pm.org</a></div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM,
          Patrick Muldoon <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:doon@labratsoftware.com" target="_blank">doon@labratsoftware.com</a>></span>
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                    <div>On Nov 15, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Steve Moon <<a
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                    <div><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Just
                        curious if anyone is into programming with Perl.
                        I go to a every-couple-of-months Perl users
                        group and some cross-pollination between groups,
                        with more people than just me going to both
                        would be great.</span><br>
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              <div>I am a recovering perl programmer, as it truly is a
                write once, read never language :) I’ve done my far
                share of stuff in perl, but most of these days is maint
                stuff.  Now-a-days I am mostly a ruby programmer (we
                have a pretty decent ruby users groups,  meets in Troy ,
                normally 4th wed of the month, but 3rd Wed in nov/dec
                due to holidays). <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://techvalleyrb.org/" target="_blank">http://techvalleyrb.org/</a> .
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              <div>but as a sys admin knowing your away around perl is
                pretty decent skill.  </div>
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